svENzon

Thx for the fast activating of my account.

I'm Sven from the middle of Germany, nearly 55yrs "old", Harley-Rider since '97 and I have had several US-Cars since 1988.

Love that V2/V8-sh*t!

In autumn '23 I bought that '73 Ranchero 500 while staying on a vacancy-tour in the netherlands, imported and registrated it to Germoney in spring '24.

At that time I/we started doing some restorations and now, in spring '25 we're almost through with it.

It has the original 302cui mounted, an AOD-Conversion with B&M-Shifter was done when it was still in California, where it came from to NL in 2020.

Stainless double-exhaust, a new paint in medium-copper, new seat- and doorcovers, carpet, etc. came into the truck and finally we changed some leaking stuff and overhauled and tuned some others, so that it is way finished now on technical side.

Except the Gauges are missing...there are some fucXing cheap boat-parts installed, that have to be changed into AutoMeter Cobra or similar?

This will be the last step for the moment...we're on that right now.

Sorry for my school-english, writing mostly without any help from a translator.

I'm trying to not annoy anyone with this...so please excuse.

That's all for now.

Greets to all of you and see ya soon...

Sven

P.S.:

Sry, image seems not working due to my new status?

I tried...

...but here's a link to my blog.

It's written in german, but there's a Translator on top of the right sidebar:

P.P.S.:

Latest Edit comes here, after I got a full member in the forum few dayz later...

And thank you for welcome.

Ya, there were no OEM-parts installed.

Instead, they installed these kinda bullsh!t-parts as a set of 6...must have been veeery cheap.

If ur very interested and wanna see them:

(Use translator, top of right side-bar...)

I thought about putting originals back in there and you can get a lot of 'em at ebay or so, but you never know if all parts are working then correctly, right?

And if not, ur searching again for single parts therefor.

So we decided to do the AutoMeter Cobra-stuff in.

Right now I'm researching how to do with the speedo-cable for example, coz I don't know why they used this crappy GPS-stuff which is installed now.

Maybe the connection at the tranny is cut off or something?

Have it check it out first.

But I think I overuse this introduction-thread...sry.

But you asked...

Greetz from a nightshift in Germany...

Welcome Sven!  I have upgraded you to a new member so you have all forum privileges now.  You will be able to upload photos to the forum now too.

I saw the gauges on your Ranchero, and I agree they do look cheap.  Did you already order a set of Autometer gauges for the car?  We have several members her with parts cars and they may have a working set of factory gauges for you. 

Good looking Ranchero. 

As far as the cable for the AOD, if you are running an electronic speedometer, I wonder if something like a sender for a fox body mustang would work to connect to the AOD. 

Instead of a physical cable, there is a sensor that generated a signal meant for use with electronic speedometers. 

Try posting a classified advertisement on the forum for any parts needed.  You can also try directly contacting California Johnny.  He has several parts cars and might be able to set you up with all that you need for a working set of original gauges. He has also built a couple of Torinos with AOD transmissions.

His profile is the URL below: